1301.4275 (Adam M. Atkinson et al.)

Faint Tidal Features in Galaxies within the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey Wide Fields    [PDF]

Adam M. Atkinson, Roberto G. Abraham, Annette M. N. Ferguson

We present an analysis of the detectability of faint tidal features in galaxies from the wide-field component of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey. Our sample consists of 1781 luminous M_r<-19.3 mag) galaxies in the magnitude range 15.510^10.5 M_sun, and red galaxies are twice as likely to show tidal features than are blue galaxies.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4275